“In any successful company there is a successful accounting professional and a very good auditor. I am proud of the fact that most of these professionals are ACCA qualified. We have professionals all over the world and about 3,000 members in Romania. I am responsible for ACCA activities in 8 countries in the region.

We started doing financial education courses because financial situations and their structure should be understood by as many people as possible, whether you are just a person who wants to take a loan from the bank, or maybe you want to invest in the stock market or that you want to know if your future employer is financially viable,” Andreia Stanciu, Head of ACCA South-Eastern Europe said during Sustainability in Business Forum organized by The Diplomat-Bucharest and Sustainability Today.

“I have always campaigned for more solid financial education. Regarding sustainability reporting, it is another learning cycle for professionals in the financial-accounting field, who are in the front ranks and who must collect data and prepare these reports.

They have a say in building these bridges between various functions. From our point of view, as an association, what we do is to offer them this platform for them to say that they are these bridge creators and secondly to offer them information in real time because the reporting standards in the field of sustainability are very new and others will appear.

Things are in a continuous transformation, and ACCA tries to offer these tools to our members so that they can help their companies and ultimately society. We are still in an early phase regarding sustainability reporting, it is something new as reporting and auditing for everyone. I know for sure that in many large companies there have been many projects until now, but from the point of view of the structure – because we do not have any report issued according to the new CSRD directive – we are still in the first steps.”